This morning (October 18th, 2018) I had the opportunity to present my “New Features and New Speed in SQL 2016 (+) Always On Availability Groups” session remotely to the community of people registered at DataPlatformGeeks.com. DPG is the group behind the Data Platform Summit, which will be at the Radisson Blu in Bangalore from August 22-24, 2019 (pre-conference sessions offered August 19-21). While I certainly hope to submit to DPS in 2019, today was a lot of fun and good chance to speak to their community.
My session began at 5:30 AM Eastern (I’m based in Lexington, Kentucky, USA). That is 3 PM IST. My kids wake up around 6:30 AM to get ready for school. I presented the webinar from my home office and my kids were a bit confused as to why I had my headset on so early in the morning and appeared to be talking directly to my wall. I’ll never cease to be amazed at technology that allows us to share technical content to people halfway around the world – it’s awesome and I’m so fortunate to get opportunities to do this now and then.
I’m actually presenting another session to them on November 15th – I’ll be doing my “Where Should My Data Live (and Why)?” presentation that I gave at PASS Summit 2017. If you’d like to register for that, the link is here. If my session doesn’t interest you, though, go check out their events page to see all the good, free content that they make available throughout the year. For example, Bob Ward and Jonathan Kehayias are the last two sessions before I present on November 15th. Even if you think I’m a bit of a dodgy speaker, you can’t get any better than Bob and Jonathan! Til next time…